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Started by Barrister, November 03, 2020, 01:17:04 PM

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grumbler

#2805
December 17, 2020, 08:43:46 AM
You can't help but think that, had Aguire been black, he'd be dead with 34 bullets in him (out of 276 fired).
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Darth Wagtaros

#2806
December 17, 2020, 08:58:42 AM
Quote from: grumbler on December 17, 2020, 08:43:46 AM
You can't help but think that, had Aguire been black, he'd be dead with 34 bullets in him (out of 276 fired).
Maybe not. But this wackjob might not have been arrested quite so quickly.
PDH!

Oexmelin

#2807
December 17, 2020, 10:18:41 AM
Que le grand cric me croque !

alfred russel

#2808
December 17, 2020, 11:59:08 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on December 17, 2020, 10:18:41 AM
GOP lawmakers call for Trump to keep power by suspending civil liberties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/16/north-carolina-republican-trump-insurrection/?fbclid=IwAR2HSOzzgJg6XQaiKFjiYyhKfvxEd6NG9AZk0fndzEk1IYGkViaffMjLV7w

Suspending civil liberties seemed a lot more "out there" prior to covid-19.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

grumbler

#2809
December 17, 2020, 12:27:03 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on December 17, 2020, 11:59:08 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on December 17, 2020, 10:18:41 AM
GOP lawmakers call for Trump to keep power by suspending civil liberties.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/16/north-carolina-republican-trump-insurrection/?fbclid=IwAR2HSOzzgJg6XQaiKFjiYyhKfvxEd6NG9AZk0fndzEk1IYGkViaffMjLV7w

Suspending civil liberties seemed a lot more "out there" prior to covid-19.

It's scary that wingnuts actually believe that Covid-19 reduces a person's ability to tell how "out there" suspending civil liberties seems. 

I think that, between the elections and the epidemic, a lot of people's minds have simply broken and left them spouting nonsense.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Sheilbh

#2810
December 17, 2020, 12:41:11 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on December 17, 2020, 11:59:08 AM
Suspending civil liberties seemed a lot more "out there" prior to covid-19.
Yeah - it's extraordinary to see the coercive power of the state in full display. I remember being in hospital with another issue in January and seeing the story in China and thinking even if it got here it wouldn't be possible to lockdown Western countries like that because none of us have the state to do it - not enough police to enforce it without the military and there'd likely be limited voluntary compliance.

Just two months later 80% of the world was in some form of lockdown. It's extraordinary.
Let's bomb Russia!

Berkut

#2811
December 17, 2020, 01:58:31 PM
What I find extraordinary, and I've always been fascinated by this, is the human ability to take any particular piece of data, and massage it so they can interpret it to fit into their pre-conceived conclusions.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Eddie Teach

#2812
December 17, 2020, 02:00:26 PM
It's scary how easily scared Grumbler is.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Maximus

#2813
December 17, 2020, 03:11:21 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on December 17, 2020, 11:59:08 AM
Suspending civil liberties seemed a lot more "out there" prior to covid-19.
No

grumbler

#2814
December 17, 2020, 03:16:42 PM
It's scary how unconcerned eddie teach is about insane armed people taking the law into their own hands, especially insane armed former Houston police captains.  I guess he figures that, logically, those guys won't go after one of their own, but I think he's nuts to count on the nuts acting logically.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Eddie Teach

#2815
December 17, 2020, 03:49:48 PM
Case in point.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#2816
December 17, 2020, 04:28:16 PM
I'm scared that Grumbler is scared that Eddie isn't scared that Grumbler is scared of Alfred Russel but is scared of Grumbler being scared in general.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

#2817
December 17, 2020, 05:13:01 PM
I'm scared of recursion.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

viper37

#2818
December 18, 2020, 10:10:20 PM
Quote from: grumbler on December 17, 2020, 12:27:03 PM

I think that, between the elections and the epidemic, a lot of people's minds have simply broken and left them spouting nonsense.
covid-19 attacks the brain.  It is known.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

jimmy olsen

#2819
December 19, 2020, 03:19:56 AM
The US has barely locked down at all.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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